The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 2011

Made: 31st August 2011

Laid before Parliament: 5th September 2011

Coming into force: 1st October 2011

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Citation and commencement

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Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

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Amendment of paragraph 26 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

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Transitional arrangements

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Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Earl Howe — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department of Health — 31st August 2011

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2006 c. 41. Section 129 has been amended by S.I. 2010/231 (the amendments made by the Health Act 2009 (c. 21), section 26, are not yet in force). See section 275(1) of the 2006 Act, which contains definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations” that are relevant to the powers being exercised.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2005/641.

[^f00003]: Regulation 2 has been amended by S.I. 2005/1501 and 3491, 2006/552, 562, 913, 1501 and 3373, 2007/289 and 674, 2008/528, 2009/2205 and 2010/914.

[^f00004]: The amendments made to section 164 by the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14), section 141, and Schedule 15, Part 4, are not yet fully in force.

[^f00005]: S.I. 2010/231.

[^f00006]: Paragraph 26 has been amended by S.I. 2008/528 and 683 and 2009/3340.

[^f00007]: The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, which is an executive agency of the Department of Health, issues safety advice, warnings, alerts and recalls in respect of medical devices on behalf of the Secretary of State, and also safety advice, warnings, alerts and recalls in respect of medicines on behalf of the Secretary of State and the Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly. The Department of Health also, separately, issues other communications concerning patient safety, on behalf of the Secretary of State.

[^f00008]: 2006 c. 47; section 59 has been amended by: the Education and Skills Act 2008 (c. 25), section 147(8); the Health Act 2009 (c. 21), Schedule 1, paragraphs 12 and 15, and Schedule 6; and S.I. 2008/919.

[^f00009]: 1996 c. 18; section 43 was inserted by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (c. 23), section 1. See also section 43K(1)(c) (i) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (inserted by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, section 1, and amended by: the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), Schedule 2, paragraph 63; the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), Schedule 1, paragraphs 177 and 178(b); and S.I. 2007/961), which extends the meaning of “worker” for the Part of that Act that deals with protected disclosures so that it covers all individuals who provide pharmaceutical services in accordance with arrangements made by a Primary Care Trust under section 126 of the National Health Service Act 2006.

Editorial notes